Works

Arches & Grottoes

TRAPANI, Sicily — September 2016The Coral Cave is a refuge from the world. A grotto where love can still happen. The place where the city regains its sacral dimension that binds those who were to those who are.

LONDON, England — April 29th, 2015Behind a portal on a Georgian street in London, lives a small grey grotto. Its rugged walls, imprinted with gestures of the mason’s trowel reveal the eroticism which was conveyed in the act of construction by the ancients.

LONDON, England — Sept 13th - Oct 11th, 2014Since the Etruscan tombs, even before appearing as a structural element in the history of architecture, the arch derived its figure from the phallus. Inspired by the Egyptian god of fertility, MIN sculpture investigates the origin of the sacred.

ROME, Italy — April 2014Crepuscular Green is an interior refurbishment of an art gallery located in San Lorenzo, Rome. The use of colour and texture is inspired by the opening scene of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, which depicts a greenish dawn as seen from the depths of the river.

ROME, Italy — March 2013In this house classical orders and golden proportions celebrate dust. A grey base supports a ceiling of rustic plaster of the colour of the bare earth: craving for primordial caverns, for Renaissance grotesques, for baroque nymphaeums in Doria Pamphilj, for faintly Liberty façades in the streets off Via Veneto.

MELBOURNE, Australia — May 2009It was the ruins of ancient Rome that inspired this project, those unpredictable warps that in the eighteenth century appeared to European travellers on the Grand Tour as fantastic visions.

MELBOURNE, Australia — October 2008Secretly, everyone is attracted to what he is afraid of and sometimes fear reawakens desires that cannot be confessed. We remain perturbed, recognising that in remote parts of our interior universe resides an apparent otherness.

NIMES, France — July 2008Research, often, is a path orientated by incoherent choices, and yet the willingness to be permeated by the unexpected often reveals new keys to the comprehension of reality, which, being by its very nature constructed from a geography and from a relatively infinite time, is unstable, insecure and imponderable.

BARCELONA, Spain — March 2008Inside a house among coarse Mediterranean glades and corrugated stone walls, a slanting light, pierced by innumerable narrow repeated blades, inscribes and describes the walls with its impermanent, mutable hand.

PARMA, Italy — January 2008Silences are not all alike. The silence of a large nave is different from that of a room. And the outdoor sounds of the countryside perceived through a great silence can be yet more diverse.

ROME, Italy — March 2007Near a rocky slope, behind a thick blanket of pines, lives a house in the shape of a tower. It is not round, but its geometric set-up dilates toward east and west to welcome in the low, warm, extended light of the sun at dawn and dusk.

TAKARAZUKA, Japan — March 2010At the same time we believe that this project gives everyone the clear idea of your personal magnetism at the full contents. This time, we did learn a lot from you. Your passion, your explicit design and your commitment to your own standard, as the whole your working attitude give us a very deep impression.— The client Nomura Kenni

MILAN, Italy — April 2010Cardillo is one of the most significant architects of our time. Combine that talent with Francesco Russo’s modern take on classic footwear and you get an exceptional shopping destination experience. This is an exciting and significant collaboration for Wallpaper and this is a must-see store.— The client Wallpaper Editor-in-Chief Tony Chambers